Track Athletics in Detail (extract)

9^ TRACK ATHLETICS IN DETAIL of the event, however, for many men drop f ac i ng the runway. It is not permissible in vaulting in America to move the upper hand on the pole. The lower BUCHHOLZ MAKING THE INTERCOLLEGIATE RECORD hand may be brought up, and Hoyt, the Harvard vaulter who won that event at the Olympic games of 1895, usually does this. In England, "climb­ ing the pole" is allowed, and athletes there fre­ quently bring the lower hand up above the other. Some of them manage to make better records by this method, too.